At my garden center we’ve been answering questions about cannabis cultivation for years, although often the customers were reticent to admit what they were growing. It was always amusing to hear how many 20-somethings who came in for rockwool cubes were “Helping my...

Cannabis companies are hopping on the rainbow Pride bandwagon and selling to the LGBTQ market, one of the most powerful markets as the industry continues to grow with legalization. For cannabis companies, understanding this consumer is important, considering the LGBTQ...

The following is a list of all recreational marijuana stores as of Aug. 6. Find out which stores have received licenses or submitted applications here. For more marijuana news, sign up for our daily marijuana newsletter, The Daily Rip, exclusively for Globe...

A relaxing, breezy cruise off the Massachusetts coast may offer an escape from another week of sweltering summer heat. However, state officials are warning boaters that they’re still subject to local and federal laws when it comes to marijuana. And that means that –...

The most populous – and potentially most profitable – recreational cannabis market in Massachusetts could soon get its first retail store. Massachusetts regulators granted the first provisional license for a rec MJ store in Boston. The preliminary license for Pure...

A new glossy magazine has launched that plans to cover the cannabis industry in Massachusetts. The premiere issue of Different Leaf magazine, published in Northampton, debuted this month. WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with the magazine’s...

BOSTON — Marijuana users could get high at “cafes” or have the drug delivered to their doorstep under new rules being weighed by state regulators, though it may be a long time before those services are available. The state’s five-member Cannabis...

State marijuana regulators spent Tuesday hashing out final details of the new rules governing both the medical and non-medical marijuana sectors, and plan to reconvene Thursday to vote to accept the draft regulations. The Cannabis Control Commission worked through...

It’s only been six short months since “adult use” recreational cannabis became legal and Massachusetts dispensaries opened their doors for sales. In only half a year, the state has nearly doubled its original projections on sales. In a report by MJBizdaily, as of the...

On May 20, three adults collapsed in a Cape Cod restaurant after trying edibles for the first time and apparently took a relatively high dose. One woman fainted and her two companions were soon lying semi-conscious on the ground. While the unfortunate incident is not...

Curaleaf, a Massachusetts-based, vertically integrated cannabis company, reported first-quarter revenue of $35.3 million, up from $9.1 million for the same period in 2018. Net loss for the company in the period totaled $10.8 million versus $3.4 million last year. Read...

WELLFLEET — The confusion over cannabis businesses that reigned at the select board’s April 9 meeting continued unabated on May 14 as the board talked in circles for 80 minutes before taking no action either on limiting the number of such stores or on granting a fifth...

(ptownie is grateful to Acting Town Manager David Gardner for supplying us with the Ptown update!) Where and when? So here’s the scoop on what you need to know about our soon-to-be-in-place marijuana dispensaries! All seven dispensaries (BWell, Curaleaf, Green Harbor,...

Skylar Martin, a 21-year-old from Hollis, New Hampshire, had been struggling to get her career off the ground. Restaurant jobs and a try at massage therapy didn’t click. A medical marijuana patient in New Hampshire, Ms. Martin knew that cannabis, and connecting with...

From Acting Town Manager David Gardner: Under the medicinal marijuana statute, which went into effect in 2013, qualifying patients 18 years of age or older with certain debilitating medical conditions can possess and use marijuana if they have a physician...